I feel like the absolute positions are they easy ones to take. But be honest with me, would you not celebrate an outcome where a system like this eliminates the potential use of iOS for CSAM and in turn causing significant decreases in the abuse of children?
No I would not celebrate such an outcome, because I have been around long enough to be aware of and care about higher order consequences of decisions like these.
Have we already forgotten about where fear of terrorism has landed us?
you seriously think they are going to stop at CSAM? that just their foot in the door. a Generation ago, they would have used this to identify lgbt people for instance.
While I share your view that child abuse is a serious problem that hackers and privacy advocates would prefer to wish away, the idea that child abusers' decision calculus is centered on the need to have an iPhone seems bizarre.
Anyone motivated to engage in that kind of behavior is just going to use a different device for their illicit material.
This isn't about children! Children mean fuck all to these people. This is the surveillance state building more instrumentation and monitoring into the fabric of society. "Thinking of the children" is the time cherished tradition for pushing through abusive tech.
This will be used in Xinjiang and Hong Kong. And soon, it will be used against you.
The only relief I have is that Millennials and GenZ aren't having kids and many couldn't give two fucks about them "being protected" from imagined goblins at a cost to their convenience. Maybe this argument won't work anymore.
